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Quotes 341 till 360 of 461.

  • Henry Ford The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Bette Midler The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.
    Source: From her album Mud will be Flung Tonight
    Bette Midler
    American singer, songwriter, actress and comedian (1945 - )
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  • Ernest Hemingway The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Howard Nemerov The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape from death except by dying. Being unable to write, you must examine in writing this being unable, which becomes for the present - henceforth? - the subject to which you are condemned.
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  • Winston Churchill The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Oscar Wilde The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • David Attenborough The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?
    David Attenborough
    English veteran broadcaster and naturalist (1926 - )
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  • Albert Einstein The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ann Macbeth The State Film Authority will be there for film as industry only, as is the case in all the other states, except Victoria. Victoria is moving more now into supporting non-commercial films.
    Ann Macbeth
    British embroiderer, designer, teacher and author (1875 - 1948)
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  • Bernard Devoto The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole.
    Bernard Devoto
    American historian, essayist and teacher
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  • Sophia Loren The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
    Sophia Loren
    Italian actress (1934 - )
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  • Carl Clinton Van Doren The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.
    Carl Clinton Van Doren
    American critic and biographer (1885 - 1980)
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  • A. N. Wilson The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessentially pessimistic tragedy: 'Moby-Dick.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Chief Seattle The white man's dead forget the country of their birth when they go to walk among the stars. Our dead never forget this beautiful earth, for it is the mother of the red man.
    Chief Seattle
    Suquamish Tribe chief (1786 - 1866)
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  • Margaret Mitchell The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.
    Margaret Mitchell
    American writer (1900 - 1949)
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  • Edith Hamilton There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.
    Edith Hamilton
    American educator and author (1867 - 1963)
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  • Napoleon Hill There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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